Transformers

I've come to adopt a project file that seems to fail intermittently on the same input DWG file. This workspace was developed over time and it's now in an FME Server 2019.1 environment (2019.1.3.1, Build 19643 - win64) where we thought it would be a risk-free minor version upgrade, but some files now fail against it. My Workbench is also the same version in troubleshooting this. I'm at a loss now for where to look to try to resolve this. This is what I've tried:Upgrade all transformers to the latest version, including the ones in embedded transformersReplaced deprecated embedded transformers, such as ClosedCurveFilter (LoopFilter) and HorizontalAngleCalculator (AzimuthCalculator).Changed Connection Runtime OrderDisabled transformers to locate the troublesome ones. They're typically on the embedded transformers, NeighborFinders, FeatureMergers, and LineOnLineOverlayers, but I'm expecting that there's no significanct change to them to make this stop working. From my desktop, a change I ma

I have a sql table with a date field.it shows Lab Code (MINA / Intertek), sample ID, Lab_report_dateI want to show this data as a table or export such as: The week is not calculated as a standard 'week', but from Wed - tuesday.I've been playing around with DateTimeCalculator & Attribute Pivoter without much luck.Is this even possible? thanks

PL.shp with attribute 1 Excel with Attibute 1 and Attribute 2Attribute 1s relateI have AttributeFilter set for Attribute 1 to extract Attirbute 1 from PL.shp I need to relate Attribute 1 to Attribute 2, which was not in PL.shp, but is in a related Excel Once the relate is attained from 1 and 2, I need to create a shp that retains the name of Attribute 2 which is then written into a folder with Attribute 2 name.  This will have to be done 200 times, so how can I efficiently get from reader to writing 200 shps that need to be in attribute 2 named folders?  Then from there, the shp needs to be created into an excel that is placed in attribute 2 named folder.

Hello, I am having difficulty getting the SHAPE field in Oracle to populate correctly. Features are 3D in FME, but the features SHAPE in Oracle are displaying as 2D not 3D after FME translation. How can I resolve this?

I am using an AffineWarper to translate some co-ordinates based on a series of control points. My control points are stored in a CSV file containing the following columns: Start_X, Start_Y, End_X, End_Y These are a series of control points representing start and end locations for the transformation. These are turned into vectors which are the vectors for the AffineWarper to perform it's transformation (see screenshot). This works fine on desktop FME, but when I upload the workspace to FME Server and upload the same CSV file, I do not get any features written. I get a warning in the logs saying the AffineWarper requires a minimum of 4 points, when the file does have at least 4 lines. I have written the outputs of the PointAdder and I can see the 4 vector lines being correctly created. However, it doesn't seem to be getting passed into the AffineWarper?  

I have a pointcloud.las and I would like to apply some R functions on it using the lidR package. I'm having some hard time figuring out on how the pointcloud should be formatted, or passed on to the data.frame within the R Caller?Same goes for grabbing the output.Any clues are much appreciated

I am reading from an Esri SDE GeoDB (ArcObjects) and use Archive Where Clause with GDB_FROM_DATE/GDB_TO_DATE to read archived data.... after processing the data, I write it to another SDE with mostly the same schema. This is my first migration step. After a while I want to do the same workflow for the data which were changed since the first migration. So I use GDB_FROM_DATE/GDB_TO_DATE in order to find the changed data in the source SDE. At the end of the second processing I need to update some of the features of the first migration (those which have been removed since the first round) and I try to use fme_db_operation UPDATE and a fme_db_operation_where clause attribute, where I try something like this:fme_db_operation_where=UUID='DEBE0707Hb000020' AND BEG='20170619110522' AND ENDE IS NULL BEG is a column of type timestamp (in the underlying Oracle DB) and needs to be compared to the value read from GDB_FROM_DATE which is of type date I get errors like the following an

I have used snipper to get the starting points of the lines, then I used NeighbourFinder to find the nearest line to the starting point, but i want to exclude lines with same id as my point.. It is possible with Postgis, but know that I got a license I prefer FME if possible.

I am trying to merge two tables with no common key. How can I do this? 1 is from a select returning the database name (dbname) and server name (srvname). For example:BlueSpark, WINSQLPRD001 2 is from a function and returns database role information. Example:sa, sysadminNTSERVICE\\SQLWriter, sysadminNTSERVICE\\Winmgmt, sysadminNTSERVICE\\MSSQL$INST1, sysadmin I want to take the two items from 1 and add them to each row from 2 such as:BlueSpark, WINSQLPRD001, sa, sysadminBlueSpark, WINSQLPRD001, NTSERVICE\\SQLWriter, sysadminBlueSpark, WINSQLPRD001, NTSERVICE\\Winmgmt, sysadminBlueSpark, WINSQLPRD001, NTSERVICE\\MSSQL$INST1, sysadmin I've tried using various transformers and all require a common key. So I tried converting the results of 1 into attributes and using that to populate the columns of the output, but it creates separate rows with the results of 1 and 2 - they are not merged such as:BlueSpark, WINSQLPRD001,,,,,sa, sysadmin,,NTSERVICE\\SQLWriter, sysadmin,,NTSERVICE\\Winmgmt

Hi,See attachments for my pipeline. In the pipeline I have a simple 3dmodel and a some amount of random generated points in a certain area where to populate that model to. The pipeline seems to work all the way to the end. If I inspect it in FME, everything is in correct place on the map, but once I send the obj to Cesium Ion, it no longer has the geolocation data, and it wants me to place it by hand in the Cesium Ion Portal. Any idea what might be wrong? If I open the obj that I just generated again in the FME Desktop, it shows the models on map correctly.     https://cesium.com/docs/tutorials/import-3d-models/

Hello! I am using NeighborFinder to match points from two different datasets. Once a point has been matched I would like to exclude it from the candidates. How would I do this?

Hi everyone,we have installed the 2021 Version already but now we don't know how to select multiple attributes in StatisticCalculator. In earlier versions i.e. 2019 it has been possible to select multiple attributes by clicking on the 3 points, unfortunately I can't find this option in 2021 Version. Do I have to select all my 100 attributes if I need a statistic about them? 😖  Is there any possibility? Kind regards,Sandra

Hi. Is there any way to create a plane or polygon of a set of pint cloud? I want to create roof surfaces from point clouds, but I have found no transformer.Thanks

I have a custom transformer to fit rectangles into a polygon. The inputs are the polygon, and the rectangles. They go into a spatial filter which checks for "contains within", failed features are rotated and looped back to the candidate rectangles port to see if they will pass the "contains" filter again. I set the "maximum number of iterations" parameter under advanced to equal 4. The issue is that the transformer will just spin the failed rectangles infinitely instead of just 4 times.

I have a 2D polygon shapefile representing buildings. I want to determine the distance to and from each building. I have tested the neighborfinder and think that may be strategy however I tested one building as the candidate and all other buildings as the base. However I do not want to create separate building polygons to use and rerun the transformer a couple hundred times. Is there a way to use the full building set as both the candidate and base?

HiI have a SQL table where I have cust no. = 1, Created date = 2020-02-01 and Last date = 2020-06-30.cust no. = 2, Created date = 2020-01-01 and Last date = 2020-07-30. I need to insert each month between Created date and Last date into a SQL table for each cust no.  Any ideas how do I do that? I tried Looper and Endless looper but I can't make it work and can't find any documentation 

We have a set of DWG files covering our geographical area. Sometimes we need to supply contractors with a subset of these files. The files are named by their map reference. We can generated a list of the required files using our GIS. So we have an Excel file with a list of these tiles in, which are also the file names of the DWGs. I have built a Workspace in FME 2020.1 to read the Excel file, construct the path and filename, and pass it to the FileCopy Writer. This successfully copies the files to a folder, but when I try to get it to ZIP the files, I only get some of them, and this message appears in the log: 2021-05-17 17:22:04| 13.4| 11.2|WARN |MULTI_WRITER: Skipped adding of some files to zip file 'X:\\SomeFolder\\selected_DWG_files.zip' because they already exist I don't understand the error because all the DWG file names are unique. I assume it's referring to the ZIP file, but I don't understand why I get varying numbers of DWG files in the ZIP each time and w

In my case there Parcel is who is supplier and building centroid is requestor in SpatialRelator of FME Script. You can see black round in one below picture. So even if centroid is falling on adjacent parcel boundary it got link of one parcel. How come ? why it's not gone for one to many matches ?  

Hi Everyone, Can you please assist if there is a way to enter bulk Test Filter Clauses into the TestFilter Transformer?  I have almost 100 test clauses that need to select points along a road by start and end in a spreadsheet. See belowThe TestFilter will filter out by these section to create a speed zone. Was wonder if there was an easier way to enter the test clauses instead of having to enter in 100 times?  Thank you so much for your help in advance

Hi all, I'm trying to write a fixed-length number to a SQL Server Non Spatial database, and most work fine, but this one doesn't - Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial Writer: Unable to format data '4411398' for column 'ciFloorArea' of type 'numeric(8,2)' The other numbers look like so, and must be the exact 8 and 2 parameters - 1305256844113988248072 I just wondered if there was anything I was missing with the one that's throwing the error up? Thanks

I have an identifier attribute which can take different forms.All contain a number, like 985 or B985 or 985aSome are preceded by a capital letter like B985Some are followed by a smallcaps letter or the character "*" like 985b or 985* I wantthe capital letters at the beginning of the string to go into attribute PREFIXthe numeric to go into attribute NUMBERthe smallcaps letter or the * to go into attribute SUFFIX I imagine using regex is the way. I have got the job partly done with a series of StringSearchers but I'd like to have advice from someone with experience. Thanks in advance !  

Identify identical geometries from two datasets I have two building datasets and I need to identify which buildings from dataset A exactly match the geometry of a building in dataset B. What's the best way to do this ?

I'm using FME 2020.2, connected to SQL Server 2014 as sa with a database specified using the non-spatial connector. I am trying to create automated Excel reports for SOX audits using three SQLExtractors running one of these each: sp_helpsrvrolemembersp_helprotectsp_helprolemember The results I am getting do not include all the rows I get with SQL Server Mgt Studio connected to the db specified in the FME connection. I also tried adding "Use DBNAME" as the pre-sql with no change. Help me to understand why this is, and how I can get the same results as SSMS (hopefully). Thanks...Bryan

I have a set of data, coming in from an sql database. I have a tester that then splits this into two streams - one stream contains details of all positive value transactions and the other contains details of all negative value transactions. Each transaction has a unique reference. I need to be able to say which DR transaction a CR transaction has been applied to but the kicker is that the CR transaction might not be for the full amount of a transaction and a later CR transaction might apply to the same DR transaction ie multiple CR transactions apply to same DR transaction. I also need to be able to assign a balance to both transactions but this needs to be the balance at the end of the transformation. The attached excel document might explain it better